Po Chü-I Selected Poems |
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Translator:
| Watson, Burton |
Series title: | Translations from the Asian Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-11839-2 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Ch#65533;-i (772-846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at large and made him a favorite with readers in Korea and Japan as well. From Po Ch#65533;-i's well-preserved corpus-personally compiled and arranged by the poet himself in an edition of seventy-five chapters-the esteemed translator Burton Watson has...
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The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Ch#65533;-i (772-846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at large and made him a favorite with readers in Korea and Japan as well. From Po Ch#65533;-i's well-preserved corpus-personally compiled and arranged by the poet himself in an edition of seventy-five chapters-the esteemed translator Burton Watson has chosen 128 poems and one short prose piece that exemplify the earthy grace and deceptive simplicity of this master poet.